Isaac Lesiba Maphotho

Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (26 February 1931-13 July 2019) was an African National Congress member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 27 April 1994 to 6 May 2014 and an Umkhonto we Sizwe leader.

Biography
Isaac Lesiba Maphotho was born in Ga-Makgato, Transvaal, South Africa in 1931, and he moved to Pretoria in 1952 and worked for the city council with the Department of Native Affairs. He later became an ANC organizer in the Benoni and Atteridgeville areas, and he was one of the initial recruits of Umkhonto we Sizwe in December 1961. He received military training in the Soviet Union and commanded MK troops in Tanzania from 1965 to 1967. In 1968, he was imprisoned by Rhodesia and sentenced to death, but he was released by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in 1980. During the 1980s, he rallied international opposition to apartheid, and he returned to South Africa in 1992. He served in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 2014, and he died in 2019 at the age of 88.